Arriving
in the Arctic soon after the first polar explorers, Carnegie Museum
of Natural
History
scientists have been investigating the people and wildlife of the
Arctic regions for more than a century. Early expeditions were harrowing
adventures – tentative steps into an alien landscape rife with cold,
darkness, and isolation.

Carnegie Museum
of Natural History expeditions have revealed much about the past, present,
and future of the Arctic. A century's worth of collecting has created
a repository of the Arctic at the Museum for scientific research. This
knowledge has resulted in publications and Museum exhibitions that familiarize
the public with one of the worlds' last frontiers.

The geographic
range of Carnegie Museum of Natural History research stretches from southern Hudson Bay to Ellesmere
Island in the high Arctic to the Mackenzie Delta and Holman Island
in the western Canadian Arctic. With the aid of the Inuit people,
these numerous expeditions have changed the way we think about the
Arctic
and its inhabitants. Needle to the North is the introductory
exhibition for Polar World: Wyckoff Hall of Arctic Life, highlighting
some of those remarkable explorers and their discoveries "in their
own words."